Everyone is blasting CNN for bogus report of Boston arrest, but Fox News and others did the same thing

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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is
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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, \x34All politics is applesauce.\x34 In 41 years as a print and broadcast journalist, most of those years with the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star, Pat has covered national politics under eight American presidents. He's attended 10 national political conventions, Republican and Democratic alike, and has interviewed countless prominent political players, including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush.

Over the past 24 hours, countless pundits have been chortling like mad at CNN’s mistaken report yesterday that an arrest had been made in the Boston bombings.
Political satirist Jon Stewart devoted a WHOLE SEGMENT last night to chiding CNN for its error.
But let’s be fair about this. Fox News made the same mistake (see photo above). Nor was CNN the first news outfit to declare that an arrest had been made. The Associated Press was.
Check THIS TICK-TOCK on who reported what and when.
I’m happy to say that here at Applesauce we HEDGED OUR BETS on the ... Read more